₦airaland Forum

bret hart: abi na....no mind them....special holy ghost service tagged 'all gays must turn straight'.....aw many gays did jesus himself tyrn straight ....blaady hypocrites...,

Afam4eva: The person you quoted says BEST and here you're saying MOST RECOGNIZED. Why don't you ask him what he means by BEST. And btw, the most recognized languages in Africa are Swahili and Hausa before any other.

Segeggs: Yoruba language is the best in africa.

bigfrancis21: I wonder why nairalanders paint a different picture from reality on nairaland.

There's no yoruba language in sierra leone. The descendants of former yoruba and Igbo ex-slaves who settled in Sierra Leone have mixed and are called Krio. They speak a language called Krio which is pidgin English language.

Also, Yoruba isn't spoken in Cuba and Brazil. It is only used as a liturgical language by santeria and candombele adherents who practise the religion just as catholics recite mass in latin. This population of this ifa-related worshippers is actually small compared to catholics, protestants etc in Brazil and Cuba. Brazil is a predominantly catholic country. Latin America or South America is catholic in population. As for day-to-day speaking of Yoruba in these countries, it is non-existent.

Jamaica doesn't practice ifa-related religions. They practice Obia instead which is a mix of Igbo's 'Obia or Dibia' and Akan's 'Obeyah' beliefs.

OLAADEGBU: Christians obey the law and love their enemies.

EBK2: Speak the language that will enable you be the best God has created you to be before you exit this planet into eternity. Some people are so afraid of losing their cultural identity. The only identity that lasts is Identity in Christ. Anything other than that, you are wasting your time in fighting a battle you will lose. There are languages that wont get you anywhere in this world (this may well include your ethnic language), so why bother. The earlier you know this, the sooner you will be free, else you will continue to be troubled by something that doesnt matter.

igbsam: Yoruba Language will be very difficult to fade away easily. I went to Benin Republic (cotonou) on a business/official trip. When i got there, the man i went to see could not speak nor understand english but only french language, i could not speak french but only english, yoruba, igbo, okpe and urhobo language fluently. It became difficult for me. while i was there staring at him and waiting for an interpreter he asked to come around, a call came in through my MTN Phone (Roaming) and then i was speaking with the person on the other end in yoruba language, the man stood up, walked to me and spoke to me in yoruba language. I was shocked.

He said to me, they also speak yoruba there in benin republic (this was like 5yrs ago). He told me that 80% of the people living in Benin Republic speak and understand yoruba fluently.

I also got to know that some part of Jaimaca speak yoruba, how true ?

Eze Promoe: [color=crimson]None of Nigeria's major languages can go extinct in my opinion. It is like a competition between the three ethnicities to preserve their languages, and save it from going extinct before that of their counterparts.

I foresee in the future (like 100 years to come) the fusion of all languages into each other, maybe then there will be call for a united Nigerian lingo.[/color]

taiocol: yoruba is the 3rd most spoken language in cuba. Yet there ar so dumb.

Segeggs: shut up you this IGBO smoking man, you are not yoruba.



75% of HIT MUSIC in africa contains yoruba language.


Angelique kidjo won 3 grammy awards singing in yoruba and she is from benin republic.

Nimen: Into Igbo

toprealman: As in kilo happen?

OLAADEGBU: His tomb is empty. He's not there, He's risen. Hallelujah!

tawa89: Bigfrancis don't you know that Nairaland is full of people who have absolutely no idea of what they are talking about. I don't even have the energy to pen a well articulated rebuttal. Op get your facts right there no Osus in igboland, maybe 200yrs ago but not today. Believing that Osu is still in existence is like believing that Yoruba Kings still feast on human heart during their coronation .

tawa89: Bigfrancis don't you know that Nairaland is full of people who have absolutely no idea of what they are talking about. I don't even have the energy to pen a well articulated rebuttal. Op get your facts right there no Osus in igboland, maybe 200yrs ago but not today. Believing that Osu is still in existence is like believing that Yoruba Kings still feast on human heart during their coronation .

David0: Its quite obvious u lack wisdom and understanding...when u have that, dis same u will come back here and tell othersabout ur experience, U can bet on that. God is God u can't beat dat. All u do here is beat ursef up while He sits and smiles at the foolishness of ur heart.

OLAADEGBU: Someone said: "About 90% of prison inmates in America are religious. Roughly 75% are Christian. Roughly same amount of serial killers are Christian."

Ray Answers: Christians obey the law and love their enemies—they don’t murder them. Religious hypocrites (pretenders) violate the law and kill people. They will be sorted out and punished on Judgment Day.

Watch ->> www.EvolutionVsGod.com

FOLYKAZE: Did not hesitate to check those verses. Bros your smackdown skill is epic. Good job

GeneralShepherd: Mr.Pagan if you edit my post kindly make it known

If there was a God I'll choose the christian before your regressive local gods

Alfa Seltzer: Satan forbid that I become a head knocker with gay tendencies. Imagine showing my ass to fellow men pretending I was praying!

GeneralShepherd: Well, I find it ridiculous that God will create man knowing fully well he will eat the forbidden fruit and still plant the tree anyway!!

Secondly, project man according to christian belief in my opinion is a failure!!

Why? If I were to develop a car the first products will be prototypes(Adam and Eve) if they failed the field tests,why would I continue production knowing my products were dead on arrival.

If Adam and eve who were direct products from God failed,how does God expect derivatives of that product to become perfect?!

And since God is all knowing He planned all this from time immemorial from creation,to the fall and the names of all that will go to hell.

But then The Christian God doesn't exists,because if there was a God(the Christian God),his logic will be airtight and not filled with the contradictions in the bible.

peteregwu: what is the different btw him and babalawo. I know he is spiritualist, but all of them are the same jare. they all worship demons.

Joshthefirst: if you would think well enough, you'd realize that freewill is an attribute.

NativeBoy: The old Judges 1:19. I guess this was meant to catch me unawares as though I had not read the bible. This is a typical example of cherry-picking scripture. Perhaps you could read Joshua 11:1-9 and Joshua 17:14-19 and Judges 2:1-4. It is clear that they would have defeated the Canaanites as they had done earlier but they were afraid and decided not take them on. As a result of their unbelief, the Canaanite tribes remained in the land.

I sincerely hope you aren't consciously trying to distort scripture. Were Israel on the hill when the Red Sea was parted? Or when Egypt was afflicted with multiple plagues? How about when the entire earth was flooded?

I will stick to facts while you and Macof are more than welcome to your name-calling. I guess that might convince someone.

Joshthefirst: no. It is not.

FOLYKAZE: Ifa do not take sacrifices but it direct you on nourishing other orisas. Read about animal sacrifice here http://ofunmeji.com/2012/10/04/the-hows-and-whys-of-animal-sacrifice-in-traditional-ifa/.

OLAADEGBU: Jesus, the same yesterday, today and forever and mighty to save.